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Aged Care (Consequential Provisions) Act 1997
66Daily income tested reduction for exempt residents taken to be zero
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#### 66 Daily income tested reduction for exempt residents taken to be zero
(1) For the purposes of the new Act, if:
(a) a person was, or is taken under paragraph 58(2)(e) to be, an exempt patient (within the meaning of section 39AD of the 1953 Act) in an approved nursing home immediately before the commencement day; and
(b) on the commencement day, or on a day occurring after the commencement day, the person is \*provided with \*residential care through a \*residential care service corresponding to that nursing home;
the \*daily income tested reduction in respect of the person for the day on which the residential care is provided is taken to be zero.
(2) If, after the commencement day:
(a) the person ceases to be \*provided with \*residential care through the \*residential care service (other than because the person is on \*leave); or
(b) the person is provided with residential care through the residential care service, but not on an extra service basis within the meaning of Division 36 of the new Act;
this section does not apply in respect of any subsequent day on which the person is provided with residential care through that residential care service.